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Originally Posted by OscarFoxtrot
I thought the "telephones" in Are You Being Served? meant somewhere customers could telephone from, ie a row of payphones.
New sockets were launched 1981, BABT appeared in 1982. Before then you could only buy or rent phones from BT.
I can remember seeing only two old-style plug and socket installations, one for an answering machine and one for a B&B to allow a guest to use the phone. I think very few people had them, and it's unlikely there was much of a mass market for replacement phones. Harrods, or Trotters Independent Trading, would have sold some gold-plated monstrosities but I don't think Grace Bros or John Lewis ever did.
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OK I should have thought it was a row of pay phones.
The Trafford Centre has one, but these days it hasn't that many actual pay phones & more a space to call on your mobile.